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Write the correct letter; A-G, in boxes 27-30 on your answer sheet.
1. Many animals in the Pleistocene 
2. Australian magafauna became extinct 
3. The figure for 45 kyr refers to 
4. OSL represented
A. Surprisingly swiftly 
B. Optically stimulated luminescence 
C. Over a long period of time 
D. Considerably lager than their modern equivalents 
E. The data of megafaunal disappereance 
F. Human habitation of Australia
G. A breakthrough in dating technology 
 
Exercise 2 : 
Keep taking the tablets 
The history of aspirin is a product of a rollercoaster ride through time, of 
accidental discoveries, intuitive reasoning and intense corporate rivalry. Its 
properties have been known for thousands of years. Ancient Egyptian physicians 
used extracts from the willow tree as an analgesic, or pain killer. Centuries later the 
Greek physician Hippocrates recommended the bark of the willow tree as a remedy 
for the pains of childbirth and as a fever reducer. But it wasn't until the eighteenth 
and nineteenth centuries that salicylates the chemical found in the willow tree 
became the subject of serious scientific investigation. The race was on to identify 
the active Ingredient and replicate it synthetically. At the end of the nineteenth 

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century a German company Friedrich Bayer & Co. succeeded in creating a 
relatively safe and very effective chemical compound, acetylsalicylic acid, which 
was renamed aspirin. The late nineteenth century was a fertile period for 
experimentation, partly because of the hunger among scientists to answer some of 
the great scientific questions, but also because those questions were withintheir 
means to answer. But an understanding of the nature of science and scientific 
inquiry is not enough on its own to explain how society innovates. In the 
nineteenth century, scientific advance was closely linked to the industrial 
revolution. This was a period when people frequently had the means, motive and 
determination to take an idea and turn it into reality. In the case of aspirin that 
happened piecemeal - a series of minor, often unrelated advances, fertilised by the 
century's broader economic, medical and scientific developments , that led to one 
big final breakthrough. The link between big money and pharmaceutical 
innovation is also a significant one. Aspirin s continued shelf life was ensured 
because for the first 70 years of its life, huge amounts of money were put into 
promoting it as an ordinary everyday analgesic. In the 1070s other analgesics, such 
as ibuprofen and paracetamol, were entering the market, and the pharmaceutical 
companies then focused on publicising these new drugs . But just at the same time, 
discoveries were made regarding the beneficial role of aspirin in preventing heart 
attacks, strokes and other afflictions.